Of course, not everybody has such a rosy view of the economy...

BBC NEWS | Business | Chavez's olive branch for firms

Conventional wisdom sees a slowing economy as a bad thing. I credit most of Venezuela's largesse to rising oil prices, not Chavez's policy. (clarification, lowering in wealth disparity credits Chavez, gdp rises credit oil). If anything he's moderating from his policy to make sure the economy stays stable and growing.

Just more proof that a mixed market social democracy is the best for the world (right now).

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Actually speaking in temrs of human existence on the planet we want the world economy as a whole to stop growing as much as possible, the more recourses we use and emissions we let out the quicker we fall into disaster.

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The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
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Well there were large increases in oil prices in the past, but Venezuela remained in recession. It is because the resource is now publicly managed that the economy can turn as the income doesn't rest in miami bank accounts and in oligarchs pockets.

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Viva Fidel

"If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism"

"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity"

I can't wait for the end to come... For electing an ash the people deserve what is coming. But America will be there with its hand out to offer help and aid as usual with any thrid world country.

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Yea can't keep the words of your great leader.

Prophet Muhammad - “Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first.”

Not going to happen, China and India are just now coming online.

You kind of ignored the rest of the substance of my post.
BS.

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"Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
-Joseph Welch

i responded to the part that most needed corretion.

On your first point, conventional wisdom may dictate so, but all things are relative and so growing at around 5% is only viewed as a bad thing because previous growth was so rapid. However, take 5% on it's own and it's a good record.

I also agree with Levi that on the whole we ought to want economies to slow down as current growth is unsustainable given the finite nature of resources.

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Viva Fidel

"If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism"

"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity"

My point is that your rosy picture of the Venezuelan economy as very healthy is more or less a fabrication.

Rampant inflation?

Come on man, partisanship shouldn't blind you to the problems that a country is having. It's like someone denying that the US economy is in straits because We r Capitlizzt!

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"Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
-Joseph Welch

You excepted more? With a dictator and corruption! Proof positive that socialism is worth the lies it is based upon. B.S. back at ya. Your the one that can't accept the truth, not me.

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Yea can't keep the words of your great leader.

Prophet Muhammad - “Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first.”

With the many posts about how this thrid world country is going to do this or that and bring down America, lol
Now the truth is out and you guys can even accept it. Capitalism is what works.

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Yea can't keep the words of your great leader.

Prophet Muhammad - “Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first.”